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• Nelumbo, plant genus of true Lotus flowers
• Lotus position, cross-legged sitting posture for meditation

Species Nelumbo lutea (American Lotus) Nelumbo nucifera (Sacred Lotus) Nelumbo is a genus of water flowers commonly known as lotus (Hindi: कमल) and the only genus in the family Nelumbonaceae. ... Kodo Sawaki in lotus position practices meditation in Zen The first pictorial representation of the lotus position is seen in the ancient Indian depiction of Shiva as Pashupati, Lord of Beasts, in Harappa The lotus position (Sanskrit: Padmasanam -- lotus posture) is a cross-legged sitting posture which originated in representations...

Horticulture and botany

• Lotus (genus), comprising bird's-foot trefoils and deervetches
• Ziziphus lotus, thorny shrub that may have been the "lotus tree" of Greek mythology
• Lotus effect, self-cleaning property of Nelumbo species
• Nymphaea lotus, the Egyptian white water-lily or tiger lotus
• Nymphaea zenkeri, the red tiger lotus
• Nelumbo nucifera, blue lotus, Indian lotus, sacred lotus, bean of India, or sacred water-lily
• Nelumbo lutea, American lotus
• Nymphaea, the water-lily genus superficially similar to and often confused with Nelumbo lotus
• Nymphaea alba, European white water-lily or white lotus
• Nymphaea caerulea, Egyptian blue lily or sacred blue lily, also called the blue or sacred lotus
• Saussurea laniceps, snow lotus

Species Between 70-150 species; see text The genus Lotus (Birds-foot Trefoil, Trefoil or Deervetch) contains approximately 150 species distributed world-wide. ... Binomial name Ziziphus zizyphus (L.) H. Karst. ... Water on the surface of a lotus leaf The Lotus effect in material science is the observed self-cleaning property found with lotus plants. ... COMMON NAME: Tiger Lotus FAMILY: Nymphaeaceae RANGE: East Africa; Southeast Asia AQUASCAPE: specimen plant HEIGHT: To 18 (45 cm) AH: From 16 (40 cm) WATER: bright LIGHT: pH: 5. ... Binomial name Gaertn. ... Binomial name Nelumbo lutea Willd. ... Species About 50 species, including: Nymphaea alba- European White Water-lily Nymphaea amazonium Nymphaea ampla Nymphaea blanda Nymphaea caerulea- Egyptian Blue Water-lily Nymphaea calliantha Nymphaea candida Nymphaea capensis- Cape Blue Water-lily Nymphaea citrina Nymphaea colorata Nymphaea elegans Nymphaea fennica Nymphaea flavovirens Nymphaea gardneriana Nymphaea gigantea- Australian Water-lily... Binomial name Nymphaea alba L. Nymphaea alba, the European White Waterlily or White Lotus, is an aquatic flowering plant of the family Nymphaeaceae. ... Binomial name Sav. ... The Snow lotus (Saussurea involucrata) is a rare plant found only in the Himalayas above the snow line. ...

Asian culture

• Lotus kick, foot sweep in T'ai Chi Ch'uan
• Lotus seed, in Chinese medicine
• Lotus Sutra, of the Sublime Dharma
• Nelumbo nucifera, the blue lotus, the sacred lotus or the Indian lotus
• Padma (attribute), the sacred lotus
• Lotus feet, the practice of foot binding in pre-modern China
• Lotus, one of the Ashtamangala, or Eight Auspicious Symbols

The foot sweep is a move in many different styles of martial arts. ... This page meets Wikipedias criteria for speedy deletion. ... The Lotus Sutra or Sutra on the White Lotus of the Sublime Dharma (Sanskrit: Saddharma Puṇḍarīka Sūtra; 妙法蓮華經 Chinese: Miàofǎ Liánhuā Jīng; Japanese: Myōhō Renge Kyō; Korean: Myobeomnyeonhwagyeong) is one of the most popular and influential Mahāyāna sutras in East Asia and... Binomial name Gaertn. ... Lotus Feet redirects here. ... Ashtamangala (In Sanskrit ashta is eight and mangala is auspicious, Devanagari: अष्टमंगल) or the Eight Auspicious Objects or Signs are endemic to a number of cultures including Buddhist symbolism, etc. ...

Western culture

• Lotus (album), live album by the band Santana
• Lotus (board game), abstract strategy board game
• Lotus (band), Sixties pop band
• Lotus (guitar), former guitar manufacturer
• Lotus (song), song by R.E.M.
• The Blue Lotus, comic album part of the 1936 series The Adventures of Tintin
• Lotus, album by Italian singer Elisa
• Lotus, song by Minus the Bear

Track Listing Disc 1 Going Home A-1 Funk - (The New Santana Band) Every Step Of The Way - (Shrieve) Black Magic Woman - (Green) Gypsy Queen - (Szabo) Oye Como Va - (Puenta) Yours Is The Light - (Kermode) Batuka - (The Old Santana Band) Xibaba (She-Ba-Ba) - (Airto) Stone Flower (Introduction) - (Jobim) Waiting... Lotus is a board game for two to four players developed by Dominique Teller and published by Ravensburger Spieleverlag. ... Lotus is a five-piece instrumental band from Philadelphia. ... These guitars were produced between the late 1970s to the late 1990s. ... Lotus was the second single to be released by R.E.M. from the bands eleventh studio album Up. ... The Blue Lotus (Le Lotus bleu), first published in 1936, is one of The Adventures of Tintin, a series of classic comic-strip albums written and illustrated by Hergé featuring young reporter Tintin as a hero. ... Elisa (born Elisa Toffoli on 19 December 1977) is an Italian singer and solo artist, writing and performing within several genres, notably rock, blues, soul and ambient. ... Minus the Bear is a Seattle, Washington-based band. ...

Corporate and computing

• Lotus Software, previously Lotus Development Corporation, Cambridge, Massachusetts
• Lotus 1-2-3, spreadsheet program
• Lotus Cars, British sports and racing car manufacturer
• Lotus (computer games), a videogame series based on Lotus Cars
• Lotus Notes, enterprise-level electronic messaging
• Lotus Sametime, instant messaging program
• Team Lotus, Formula 1 constructor related to Lotus Cars
• Tesco Lotus, chain of Thai hypermarket stores
• IBM Lotus Connections, social networking program
• IBM Lotus Quickr, enterprise-level team collaboration

Lotus Software (called Lotus Development Corporation before its acquisition by IBM) is an American software company with its headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts. ... Lotus 1-2-3 is a spreadsheet program from Lotus Software (now part of IBM). ... Lotus Logo with monogram of its founder, Anthony Colin Bruce Chapman Lotus Cars is a British manufacturer of sports and racing cars based at Hethel, Norfolk, England. ... The first game in series (Amiga) Lotus Esprit Turbo Challenge, Lotus Turbo Challenge 2, and Lotus 3: The Ultimate Challenge were pseudo-3D racing games by Gremlin Graphics developed for the Amiga and then converted for Sega Genesis and PC, released in the early 1990s. ... Lotus Notes is a client-server collaborative software and e-mail system owned by Lotus Software, of the IBM Software Group. ... IBM Lotus Sametime is the commercial Instant Messaging service by the Lotus Software brand of IBM. It provides instant messaging(IM) and presence awareness capabilities as well as support for web conferencing. ... Team Lotus was one of Formula 1s most successful teams. ... Tesco Lotus logo Tesco Lotus is a hypermarket chain in Thailand. ... IBM Lotus Connections is a proprietary Web-based social software application distributed by the Lotus Software division of IBM. Lotus Connections is, according to IBM, ...social software for business that empowers you to be more innovative and helps you execute more quickly by using dynamic networks of coworkers, partners and... Announced at the Lotusphere 2007, IBM Lotus Quickr is a Web 2. ...

Other usage

• Lotus, Florida, area in Brevard County, USA
• S.S.S. Lotus, gaff-rigged schooner
• Lotus case, a precedent-setting case resulting from a collision between the S.S. Lotus and the S.S. Boz-Kourt
• Lotus tree of Greek mythology, into which Lotis was transformed, and which was eaten by the Lotophagi of Homer's Odyssey

Lotus is a former town in Brevard County, Florida, United States. ... This article is considered orphaned, since there are very few or no other articles that link to this one. ... This article is about the French steamer. ... The lotus tree (Greek lôtos) was a plant in Greek mythology bearing a fruit that caused a pleasant drowsiness and growing in North Africa. ...

See also

• Black lotus

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